This kind of slipped past my radar, but it seems thst Namco Bandai composer Kennosuke Suemura did a little bit of idea ripping for his Super Robot Taisen series game soundtrack. He was accused of stealing from both Chrono Trigger ("Magus' Theme") and Lufia II (“The One Who Will Save The Earth"). Sounds like this stealing composer likes 16-bit role-playing games as much as I do.
Did he steal, or were people just blindly calling him out? No, I'm pretty sure he stole these melodies. Original Sound Version linked us to a video which you'll find below the jump. It plays the songs in question, letting you compare them to the original pieces. This dude had no shame!
What's crazy is that the composer did this before, earlier with Warcraft II! OSV tells us that Namco Bandai has since released a formal apology and paid a settlement to resolve the issue. I think Namco Bandai needs to send this guy home to play his 16-bit RPGs.
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In vaguely related trivi; Nino Rota was disqualified from winning the Oscar for his score to The Godfather because he reused themes he had written for a film in 1958.
That's too bad about Mr. Rota. Bugs me that John Williams does the same thing and earns plenty of nominations and awards.
After listening to the music, it is VERY obvious that it was influenced by the Magus theme. But at least he changed it up some. Do I think he is a good composer? Hell no! But Sqeenix should just be flattered and let it go.
It's been working for Rob Liefeld for years.
My vote is for "rip-off."
shame on him!!!!
Chrono Trigger was probably my favorite SNES game and I love the music more than anything. so weird that it was all pieced together and like...ALL PIECED TOGETHER